The Virtual Reality of Imprisonment in Russia: 'Preparing myself for Prison' in a Contested Human Rights Landscape

by Laura Piacentini and Elena Katz

In outlining the online expressions of penal life, this book disrupts the conventional human encounters that underpin empirical criminological scholarship on prisons because, figuratively speaking, prisons in Russia are de-nesting from their institutional moorings and borders.

Using the online world of Runet as the research site and presenting research from selectively drawn evidence gathered from secondary data from prison-related websites,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138103357
• ISBN13: 9781138103351
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"